CN108831954B

CN108831954B - High-speed laying device and laying method for battery strings

Info

Publication number: CN108831954B
Application number: CN201810577918.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 雷水德; 曾庆礼; 高宜江; 单春声; 李绍鹏
Original assignee: Suzhou Deruilian Automation Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Deruilian Automation Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-06-07
Filing date: 2018-06-07
Publication date: 2020-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 2038-06-07
Also published as: CN108831954A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a high-speed laying device of battery strings, which comprises a typesetting unit, a correcting unit, a pre-fetching unit and a conveying unit, wherein the typesetting unit comprises a laying area, the battery strings are laid in the laying area, the correcting unit comprises a correcting area, and the battery strings in the righting area are righted, the pre-fetching unit comprises a pre-fetching area, the battery strings are transferred to the righting area typesetting unit from the pre-fetching area, and the conveying unit comprises a first conveying device and a second conveying device, and the battery strings are alternately conveyed to the pre-fetching area.

Description

High-speed laying device and laying method for battery strings

Technical Field

The invention relates to a high-speed laying device for a battery string and a method applying the high-speed laying device for the battery string.

Background

With the continuous development of new energy, the requirement of the solar photovoltaic industry on productivity is higher and higher, the existing battery string laying machine needs to grasp the battery string by a manipulator and place the battery string in a righting device, after the righting device rights the battery string, the manipulator grasps the battery string which is righted and places the battery string in a laying area to complete laying, in this way, there are two problems, one is that since the robot needs to perform two times of grasping, and also needs to wait for the righting device to right the battery string between the two grasping, therefore, the laying speed is slow, and on the other hand, when the half-chip battery strings are laid in the mode, the position of the half-chip battery string in the laying area is required to be adjusted during laying, the laying speed is further reduced, and the manipulator is required to have higher degree of freedom, so that the manufacturing cost of the manipulator is increased, and the laying precision is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a high-speed laying device for a battery string and a method applying the device to solve the technical problems.

The utility model provides a high-speed laying device of battery cluster, includes typesetting unit, the unit of reforming, prefetches material unit and conveying unit, typesetting unit including laying the district, the unit of reforming including the district of reforming, prefetches the material unit including the material district of getting in advance, wherein:

the typesetting unit also comprises a typesetting manipulator which is used for transferring the battery strings in the correcting area to the laying area and laying the battery strings in the laying area;

the battery pack comprises a battery pack body, a battery pack body and a battery pack body, wherein the battery pack body is used for storing a battery pack;

the pre-fetching unit further comprises a pre-fetching manipulator which is used for transferring the battery string from the pre-fetching area to the righting area;

the conveying unit is used for conveying the battery strings to the pre-fetching area and comprises a first conveying device and a second conveying device, the first conveying device and the second conveying device comprise a first motion state, and the first motion state is that the first conveying device and the second conveying device alternately convey the battery strings to the pre-fetching area.

Furthermore, the first conveying device and the second conveying device may further include a second motion state, where the second motion state is that the first conveying device or the second conveying device conveys the battery string to the pre-fetching area, and the first conveying device and the second conveying device may be in the first motion state or the second motion state selectively.

Furthermore, the first conveying device comprises a first position, the second conveying device comprises a second position, the first conveying device can movably move from the first position to the pre-material taking area, the second conveying device can movably move from the second position to the pre-material taking area, and the pre-material taking area is arranged between the first position and the second position.

Furthermore, the typesetting manipulator comprises a typesetting displacement component, and the freedom degree of the typesetting displacement component is less than or equal to 2.

Further, typesetting displacement subassembly includes first displacement subassembly, first displacement subassembly include first crossbeam and first support, the setting of first support activity on first crossbeam, just first support mobilizable along the second direction motion, the district of reforming and lay the district and set up on first support motion path.

Further, pre-fetch material manipulator including pre-fetch material level move the subassembly, pre-fetch material level move the subassembly and include third displacement subassembly, third displacement subassembly include second crossbeam and third support, the setting of third support activity on the second crossbeam, just the mobilizable second direction of following of third support motion, pre-fetch material district and the district of reforming set up on third support motion path.

Furthermore, the second beam is an extension of the first beam in the length direction, the first displacement assembly comprises a first driving device, the first driving device is a first linear motor, the third displacement assembly comprises a third driving device, the third driving device is a second linear motor, the first linear motor comprises a first linear motor primary, the second linear motor comprises a second linear motor primary, and the second linear motor primary is an extension of the first linear motor primary in the length direction.

Furthermore, the correcting device comprises a correcting and a supporting plate arranged on the correcting frame, a correcting area is formed on the upper surface of the supporting plate, the correcting device further comprises a first correcting assembly, the first correcting assembly comprises a first correcting push plate, the first correcting push plate comprises a pushing surface, and the pushing surface is parallel to the first direction.

The invention also provides a battery string high-speed laying method applying the battery string high-speed laying device, which comprises the following steps:

providing a battery string to be taken;

placing a battery string to be pre-fetched on a first conveying device, placing a battery string to be fetched on a second conveying device, wherein the first conveying device and the second conveying device are in a first motion state, and the first motion state is that the first conveying device and the second conveying device alternately convey the battery string to be fetched to a pre-fetching area;

the pre-fetching manipulator grabs a battery string to be pre-fetched in the pre-fetching area, and the typesetting manipulator grabs a battery string after being normalized in the normalizing area;

the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the pre-fetching area to the righting area, the battery string to be righted is released in the righting area, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the righting area to the laying area, and the battery string after being righted is laid in the laying area;

the righting device is used for righting the battery strings to be righted in the righting area to obtain the battery strings after being righted, the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the righting area to the pre-fetching area, and the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the laying area to the righting area.

Further, a battery string high-speed laying method of the battery string high-speed laying device includes:

providing a battery string to be taken;

the method comprises the following steps that a righting device rights a battery string to be righted in a righting area to obtain the battery string after being righted, a pre-fetching manipulator transfers the battery string to a pre-fetching area from the righting area, a typesetting manipulator transfers the battery string to be fetched to the righting area from a laying area, and a first conveying device places the battery string to be fetched;

the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the pre-fetching area to the righting area and releases the battery string to be righted in the righting area, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the righting area to the laying area and lays the battery string to be righted in the laying area, the first conveying device conveys the battery string to be fetched to the pre-fetching area, and the second conveying device moves in the direction far away from the pre-fetching area;

the righting device is used for righting the battery string to be righted in the righting area to obtain the battery string after being righted, the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the righting area to the pre-fetching area, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the laying area to the righting area, and the battery string to be fetched is placed on the second conveying device;

the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the pre-fetching area to the righting area and releases the battery strings to be righted in the righting area, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the righting area to the laying area and lays the battery strings to be righted in the laying area, the second conveying device conveys the battery strings to be fetched to the pre-fetching area, and the first conveying device runs away from the direction of the pre-fetching area.

Has the advantages that: the embodiment of the invention provides a high-speed laying device of battery strings, which comprises a typesetting unit, a correcting unit, a pre-fetching unit and a conveying unit, wherein the typesetting unit comprises a laying area, the battery strings are laid in the laying area, the correcting unit comprises a correcting area, and the battery strings in the righting area are righted, the pre-fetching unit comprises a pre-fetching area, the battery strings are transferred to the righting area typesetting unit from the pre-fetching area, and the conveying unit comprises a first conveying device and a second conveying device, and the battery strings are alternately conveyed to the pre-fetching area.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a high-speed battery string laying device provided in an embodiment of the present invention

FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a layout unit and a pre-fetch unit in a high-speed battery string laying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of area A in FIG. 3

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of the area B in FIG. 3

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a righting unit in the high-speed battery string laying apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of area C in FIG. 6

Description of reference numerals:

battery string 10

Substrate 11

Frame 12

Typesetting unit 100

Laying area 1000

First displacement assembly 101

First beam 1011

First support 1012

First driving device 1013

Second displacement assembly 102

Second fixing frame 1021

Second support 1022

Second driving device 1023

Gripping means 103, 303

Gripper bar 1031, 3031

Gripping suction cups

1032, 3032

Rotating assembly 304

Reforming unit 200

Supporting plate 201

Normalizing section 2010

First reforming push plate 202

Fixed plate 2021

Guide groove 2022

Position adjusting device 203

Image acquisition device 204

Guide means 205,206

Reforming drive device 207

Reforming frame 208

Prefetch unit 300

Pre-fetching area 3000

Third displacement assembly 301

Second Cross Member 3011

Third support 3012

Third driving device 3013

Fourth shift assembly 302

Fourth fixing frame 3021

Fourth bracket 3022

Fourth drive unit 3023

Delivery unit 400

First conveyance device 401

First conveyor belt 4011

Fifth driving device 4012

Second conveying device 402

Second conveyor belt 4021

Sixth drive 4022

Substrate transfer apparatus 403

First substrate transport assembly 4031

Second substrate transport assembly 4032

Riding wheel 4033

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples.

Detailed Description

Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in the description and claims of the present disclosure do not denote any order, quantity, or mechanical connection, but rather denote the presence of at least one. The terms "connected" or "coupled" and the like are not restricted to physical or mechanical connections, but may include electrical connections, whether direct or indirect. "up", "down", "left", "right", and the like are used only to indicate relative positional relationships, and when the absolute position of the object to be described is changed, the relative positional relationship is also changed accordingly.

For convenience of description, in the following description, the "first direction" is a left-right direction in fig. 2, and the "second direction" is an up-down direction in fig. 2, and it is understood that the "first direction" and the "second direction" are substantially parallel to a horizontal plane, and the vertical direction is perpendicular to the horizontal plane.

Referring to fig. 1-2, fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a high-speed battery string laying device provided by the present invention, fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a high-speed battery string laying device provided by an embodiment of the present invention as seen from the top, the high-speed battery string laying device is generally arranged in the downstream direction of a series welder, the battery strings 10 welded by the series welder are laid on a laying area 1000 for subsequent operations, the battery strings 10 are rectangular plate-shaped and include a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, the long sides are perpendicular to the short sides, the laying means that the battery strings 10 are laid on the laying area 1000, and when a plurality of battery strings 10 are laid, the plurality of battery strings 10 are arranged in an array in the laying area 1000.

The high-speed battery string laying device comprises a typesetting unit 100, a correcting unit 200, a pre-fetching unit 300 and a conveying unit 400 which are arranged on a rack 12.

The typesetting unit 100 comprises a laying area 1000 for laying the battery string 10 in the laying area 1000, specifically, the typesetting unit 100 comprises a laying board arranged on the frame 12, the laying board comprises an upper surface, and the upper surface of the laying board forms the laying area 1000.

Referring to fig. 3 and 4 together, fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a typesetting unit and a pre-fetching unit in the high-speed battery string laying device provided by the present invention, fig. 4 shows an enlarged schematic diagram of a typesetting unit in the high-speed battery string laying device provided by the present invention, the typesetting unit 100 includes a typesetting manipulator, the typesetting manipulator is disposed above the laying area 1000 and is used for transferring the battery string 10 from the normalizing unit 200 to the laying area 1000 and laying the battery string 10 in the laying area 1000, it can be understood that the laying area 1000 may further include a substrate 11, when the laying area 1000 includes the substrate 11, the typesetting manipulator lays the battery string 10 on the substrate 11, and the typesetting manipulator includes a typesetting displacement assembly and a grabbing device 103.

The typesetting displacement assembly is used for moving the gripping device 103, so that the gripping device 103 grips the battery string 10 from the reforming area 2010 of the reforming unit 200 and releases the battery string 10 to the laying area 1000, thereby completing the transfer and the laying of the battery string 10. The typesetting displacement assembly comprises a first displacement assembly 101, the first displacement assembly 101 comprises a first cross beam 1011 and a first support 1012 which are arranged on the frame 12, the first support 1012 is movably arranged on the first cross beam 1011, the first support 1012 can move along a second direction, and it can be understood that the reforming area 2010 and the laying area 1000 are arranged on the movement path of the first support 1012.

Further, the first beam 1011 is further provided with a first driving device 1013 for driving the first bracket 1012 to move along the second direction, specifically, the first driving device 1013 is a first linear motor, the first linear motor is primarily disposed on the first beam 1011, and the first bracket 1012 is secondarily connected to the first linear motor, it can be understood that the first linear motor is primarily parallel to the second direction, and preferably, the first linear motor is primarily parallel to the horizontal plane, so that the first bracket 1012 moves along the direction parallel to the second direction and the direction parallel to the water surface.

Further, in order to make the first beam 1011 and the first support 1012 be provided with a guiding device therebetween, the guiding device is used for making the first support 1012 move more stably in the second direction.

Alternatively, in other embodiments, the first driving device 1013 may also be one of an electric cylinder, an air cylinder, a lead screw, an electromagnet, a hydraulic cylinder, and the like.

The gripping device 103 is connected to the first support 1012, and when the first support 1012 moves in the second direction, the gripping device 103 moves along with the second direction, it can be understood that, when the gripping device 103 moves to the restoring area 2010, the gripping device 103 can grip the battery string 10 that has been restored from the restoring area 2010, and when the gripping device 103 moves to the laying area 1000, the gripping device 103 releases the battery string 10 to the laying area 1000, completes the laying of the battery string 10, and repeats the steps of gripping, moving, and releasing, and can complete the laying of a plurality of battery strings 10.

In this embodiment, the grasping device 103 includes a grasping rack 1031 and a grasping suction cup 1032, the grasping rack 1031 is connected to the first support 1012, the grasping rack 1031 is substantially in the shape of a long rod, the grasping suction cup 1032 is disposed on the grasping rack 1031, and preferably, the grasping suction cups 1032 are plural, so that when the battery string 10 is grasped, the battery string 10 has a larger force-bearing area, and the battery string 10 is prevented from falling.

Preferably, the plurality of gripping suction cups 1032 are symmetrically disposed along the gripping rack 1031, so that the battery string 10 is more uniformly stressed.

More preferably, the plurality of suckers are arranged in an array.

It will be appreciated that a vacuum device is also connected to the gripping suction cups 1032 to provide vacuum suction to the gripping suction cups, and will not be described in detail herein.

Further, in order to facilitate the grasping device 103 to grasp the battery string 10 in the restoring area 2010 more easily and prevent the damage of the battery string 10 when the grasping device 103 releases the battery string 10 in the laying area 1000, the typesetting displacement assembly is further provided with a second displacement assembly 102 for vertically lifting the height of the grasping device 103 or vertically lowering the height of the grasping device 103, the second displacement assembly 102 comprises a second fixing frame 1021 and a second support 1022 movably arranged on the second fixing frame 1021, the second support 1022 is movably movable in the vertical direction, the second fixing frame 1021 is arranged on the first support 1012, the grasping device 103 is arranged on the second support 1022, when the first support 1012 moves to the restoring area 2010, the second support 1022 is vertically moved in the direction close to the restoring area 2010, so that the grasping device 103 is closer to the battery string 10, when the first support 1012 needs to be transferred from the reforming area 2010 to the laying area 1000, the second support 1022 moves in the vertical direction away from the reforming area 2010 so as to prevent the battery string 10 gripped by the gripping device 103 from contacting a device such as a rack 12 and the like to damage the battery string 10, and when the first support 1012 moves to the laying area 1000, the second support 1022 moves in the vertical direction toward the laying area 1000 so as to enable the battery string 10 gripped by the gripping device 103 to be closer to the laying area 1000 and prevent the battery string 10 from being damaged when the battery string 10 is released.

The second fixing frame 1021 is further provided with a second driving device 1023 for driving the second support 1022 to move along the vertical direction, in this embodiment, the second driving device 1023 is an electric cylinder, the electric cylinder includes a cylinder body and a sliding block, the cylinder body is fixed on the second fixing frame 1021, the second support 1022 is connected with the sliding block, and when the sliding block moves, the second support 1022 is driven to move.

It is understood that the second driving device 1023 can be one of an air cylinder, a linear motor, a lead screw, an electromagnet, a hydraulic cylinder, and the like.

Further, the degree of freedom of the typesetting displacement assembly is less than or equal to 2, the degree of freedom of the typesetting displacement assembly is reduced, meanwhile, the displacement requirement required by the typesetting manipulator is guaranteed, the system complexity of the typesetting manipulator is reduced, the typesetting precision of the typesetting manipulator is improved, specifically, the typesetting manipulator is composed of the first displacement assembly 101 and the second displacement assembly 102, the first displacement assembly 101 comprises a first support 1012, the first support 1012 comprises a motion path, the correcting area 2010 and the laying area 1000 are located on the motion path, and the motion path is a straight line, so that the moving distance is shortest.

The layout unit 100 is provided with a correcting unit 200 upstream, please refer to fig. 6 and 7 together, where fig. 6 shows a schematic diagram of a correcting unit in the high-speed battery string laying device provided by the present invention, fig. 7 shows a schematic diagram of a partial enlargement of the correcting unit in the high-speed battery string laying device provided by the present invention, the correcting unit 200 includes a correcting device for correcting the battery strings 10 in the correcting area 2010, the correcting means is to form parallel alignment of the battery strings 10 laid on the correcting area 2010 along a first direction, and simultaneously, when the battery strings 10 are laid in the laying area 1000, the battery strings 10 can form an array arrangement, and more specifically, the long sides of the battery strings 10 are parallel to the first direction, so that the long sides of the battery strings 10 are parallel aligned along the first direction.

The device comprises a correcting frame 208 and a supporting plate 201 arranged on the correcting frame 208, wherein a correcting area 2010 is formed on the upper surface of the supporting plate 201, the correcting device further comprises a first correcting component used for correcting the long edge of the battery string 10, the long edge of the battery string 10 after being corrected is parallel to a first direction, the first correcting component comprises a first correcting push plate 202, the first correcting push plate 202 comprises a pushing surface, the pushing surface is parallel to the first direction, when the battery string 10 is placed on the supporting plate 201, the first correcting push plate 202 moves along a second direction, so that the pushing surface pushes the battery string 10 to move, if one end of the battery string 10 facing the first correcting push plate 202 inclines to the first correcting push plate 202, the friction force between the first correcting push plate 202 and the supporting plate 201 and the pushing force of the first correcting push plate 202 are generated, so that the end of the battery 10 facing the first correcting push plate 202 finally keeps in contact with the first correcting push plate 202, thereby achieving the reforming of the long side of the battery string 10.

Further, the correcting frame 208 is further provided with a correcting driving device 207 for driving the first correcting push plate 202 to move along the second direction, in this embodiment, the correcting driving device 207 is a screw nut device, but other devices, such as an air cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder, an electric cylinder, an electromagnet, etc., are also feasible.

Further, in order to make the first correcting push plate 202 move more stably in the second direction, a guide device 205 is further disposed between the first correcting push plate 202 and the correcting rack 208.

Further, in order to make the first aligning pushing plate 202 more easily push against the battery string 10, the supporting plate 201 is further provided with a guide groove 2022, the first aligning pushing plate 202 is arranged in the guide groove 2022 in a penetrating manner, the guide groove 2022 includes a length direction, and the length direction of the guide groove 2022 is parallel to the second direction.

Further, the first aligning assembly includes a fixing plate 2021 disposed opposite to the first aligning pushing plate 202, the fixing plate 2021 is parallel to the first direction, when the first aligning pushing plate 202 pushes the battery string 10 to move toward the fixing plate 2021 by pushing, the long side of the battery string 10 opposite to the first aligning pushing plate 202 contacts the fixing plate 2021, and under the thrust of the first aligning pushing plate 202, the thrust of the fixing plate 2021, and the friction between the supporting plate 201 and the battery string 10, the battery string 10 is aligned faster, so that the long side of the battery string 10 is parallel to the first direction.

Further, in order to reduce the material required by the first aligning pushing plate 202, the first aligning pushing plate 202 includes a plurality of first aligning sub pushing plates, the first aligning sub pushing plates include sub pushing surfaces, the sub pushing surfaces are coplanar, and a plane formed by the sub pushing surfaces is parallel to the first direction.

Furthermore, a linkage device is arranged between the first reforming sub-push plates and used for enabling the first reforming sub-push plates to move synchronously.

Further, the righting device further comprises a second righting component for righting the short sides of the battery strings 10, so that the short sides of the battery strings 10 passing through the righting are at the same position, and the short sides of the battery strings 10 laid in the laying area 1000 are collinear, the second righting component comprises a position adjusting device 203, the supporting plate 201 is movably arranged on the righting frame 208, the supporting plate 201 can move along a first direction, when the supporting plate 201 moves along the first direction, the battery strings 10 placed on the supporting plate 201 move along the first direction, so as to adjust the position of the battery strings 10, in this embodiment, the position adjusting device 203 comprises a movable end and a fixed end, the movable end can move along the first direction, the supporting plate 201 is connected with the movable end, the fixed end is connected with the righting frame 208, when the battery strings 10 are placed on the supporting plate 201, the movable end of the position adjusting device moves along the first direction to drive the supporting plate 201 and the battery string 10 placed in the reforming area 2010 to move along the first direction, and the short side of the battery string 10 moves to the relative position which is the same as the reference position. The reference position refers to a characteristic position clearly distinguished from the short side, such as a fixed line or a fixed object on the frame 12 or the righting frame 208, and preferably is a reference line, such as a side line of the righting frame 208, and the same relative position is the same distance between the short side and the reference position.

Specifically, the position adjusting device 203 is a lead screw nut, but other devices, such as an air cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder, an electric cylinder, and an electromagnet, are also possible.

Further, the second righting assembly further comprises a guide 206 for stabilizing the pallet 201 in the first direction.

Further, the righting device comprises a left righting device and a right righting device, the left righting device and the right righting device are symmetrically arranged, when a first half-chip battery string 10 is arranged on the left righting device, and a second half-chip battery string 10 is arranged on the right righting device, the left righting device rights the first half-chip battery string 10, the right righting device rights the second half-chip battery string 10, the righting first half-chip battery string 10 is collinear with the adjacent long side of the second half-chip battery string 10, and the adjacent short side is collinear, so that the righting of the half-chip battery string 10 is realized, and the left righting device and the right righting device can also righte the whole half-chip battery string 10.

The left righting device comprises a left supporting plate 201, the right righting device comprises a right supporting plate 201, the left supporting plate 201 comprises a left supporting surface, the right supporting plate 201 comprises a right supporting surface, the height of the left supporting surface is equal to that of the right supporting surface, and a righting area 2010 is formed by the left supporting surface and the right supporting surface.

Furthermore, the left supporting surface and the right supporting surface have the same shape and the same area.

Further, in order to more accurately adjust the relative distance between the short side of the battery string 10 and the reference position, the second restoring assembly further includes a detecting device for detecting the distance between the short side of the battery string 10 and the reference line, and the detecting device includes an image capturing device 204 for obtaining the image information of the short side of the battery string 10 and the reference position through the image capturing device 204, so as to obtain the distance information between the short side of the battery string 10 and the reference position.

Optionally, in other embodiments, the detection device includes a laser range finder, the laser range finder includes a transmitting end and a receiving end, the transmitting end is fixed on the righting frame 208 and transmits a laser beam to the short side direction of the battery string 10, the receiving end receives the beam reflected by the short side of the battery string 10, and compares the time of the transmitting end transmitting beam and the time of the receiving end receiving the beam, so as to obtain the distance information between the fixed end and the short side of the battery string 10.

Referring to fig. 5 together, fig. 5 shows an enlarged schematic view of a pre-fetching manipulator in the high-speed battery string laying apparatus provided by the present invention, wherein the pre-fetching unit 300 includes a pre-fetching area 3000 and a pre-fetching manipulator disposed above the pre-fetching area 3000, and the pre-fetching manipulator includes a pre-fetching displacement assembly and a grabbing device 103.

A material manipulator is prefetched and is set up in prefetching material district 3000 top for shift to the district 2010 of reforming from prefetching material district 3000 with battery cluster 10, the device of reforming of being convenient for is to reform the battery cluster 10, material manipulator prefetched include material displacement assembly and grabbing device 103 of prefetching.

The pre-fetching level shift assembly is configured to move the grasping device 103, so that the grasping device 103 grasps the battery string 10 from the pre-fetching region 3000 and releases the battery string 10 to the reforming region 2010. The pre-fetching material level shifting assembly comprises a third shifting assembly 301, the third shifting assembly 301 comprises a second cross beam 3011 and a third support 3012 which are arranged on the rack 12, the third support 3012 is movably arranged on the second cross beam 3011, the third support 3012 can move along the second direction, and it can be understood that the pre-fetching material area 3000 and the restoring area 2010 are arranged on the moving path of the third support 3012.

Further, the second cross beam 3011 is further provided with a third driving device 3013 for driving the third support 3012 to move along the second direction, specifically, the third driving device 3013 is a second linear motor, the primary of the second linear motor is arranged on the second cross beam 3011, and the third support 3012 is connected to the secondary of the second linear motor, it can be understood that the primary of the second linear motor is parallel to the second direction, preferably, the primary of the second linear motor is parallel to the horizontal plane, so that the third support 3012 moves along a direction parallel to the second direction and a direction parallel to the water surface.

Further, the second beam 3011 is an extension of the first beam 1011 in the length direction.

Furthermore, the second linear motor primary is the extension of the first linear motor primary in the length direction, so that the first linear motor and the second linear motor share the primary, and the cost is reduced.

Further, in order to make the second cross-beam 3011 and the third support 3012 have a guiding device therebetween, the guiding device is used to make the third support 3012 move more stably in the second direction.

Alternatively, in other embodiments, the third driving device 3013 may also be one of an electric cylinder, an air cylinder, a lead screw, an electromagnet, a hydraulic cylinder, and the like.

The gripping device 303 may be the same as the gripping device 103 of the type-setting manipulator, and will not be described herein.

Similarly, in order to facilitate the gripping device 303 to grip the battery string 10 in the pre-fetching region 3000 more easily and prevent the damage of the battery string 10 caused by releasing the battery string 10 in the restoring region 2010, the pre-fetching level shift assembly is further provided with a fourth shift assembly 302 for vertically raising the height of the gripping device 303 or vertically lowering the height of the gripping device 303, the fourth shift assembly 302 comprises a fourth fixing frame 3021 and a fourth support 3022 movably arranged on the fourth fixing frame 3021, the fourth support 3022 is movably moved in the vertical direction, the fourth fixing frame 3021 is arranged on the third support 3012, the gripping device 303 is arranged on the fourth support 3022, when the third support 3012 moves to the pre-fetching region 3000, the fourth support 3022 moves in the vertical direction to approach the pre-fetching region 3000, so that the gripping device 303 is closer to the battery string 10, therefore, the battery string 10 can be easily grabbed, when the third support 3012 needs to be transferred from the pre-feeding area 3000 to the returning area 2010, the fourth support 3022 moves in the vertical direction away from the pre-feeding area 3000, so that the battery string 10 grabbed by the grabbing device 303 is prevented from contacting devices such as the rack 12 and the like, and the battery string 10 is damaged, when the third support 3012 moves to the returning area 2010, the fourth support 3022 moves in the vertical direction close to the returning area 2010, so that the battery string 10 grabbed by the grabbing device 303 is closer to the returning area 2010, and the battery string 10 is prevented from being damaged when the battery string 10 is released.

The fourth fixing frame 3021 is further provided with a fourth driving device 3023 for driving the fourth support 3022 to move along the vertical direction, in this embodiment, the fourth driving device 3023 is an electric cylinder, the electric cylinder includes a cylinder body and a slider, the cylinder body is fixed on the fourth fixing frame 3021, the fourth support 3022 is connected with the slider, and when the slider moves, the fourth support 3022 is driven to move.

It is understood that the fourth driving device 3023 may also be one of an air cylinder, a linear motor, a lead screw, an electromagnet, a hydraulic cylinder, and the like.

The upstream of the pre-fetching unit 300 is provided with a conveying unit 400 for conveying the battery string 10 to the pre-fetching area 3000, generally, the upstream of the conveying unit 400 is provided with a stringer, the conveying unit 400 conveys the battery string 10 welded by the stringer to the pre-fetching area 3000 so as to be grabbed and transferred by a pre-fetching manipulator, the conveying unit 400 comprises a first conveying device 401 and a second conveying device 402, the first conveying device 401 is connected with the first stringer, the first conveying device 401 comprises a first bearing surface, the second conveying device 402 is connected with the second stringer, the second conveying device 402 comprises a second bearing surface, and the first bearing surface and the second bearing surface are used for bearing the battery string 10.

The first conveying device 401 comprises a first position, the second conveying device 402 comprises a second position, the first conveying device 401 is movably arranged between the first position and the pre-material fetching area 3000, the second conveying device 402 is movably arranged between the second position and the pre-material fetching area 3000, when the first conveying device 401 moves from the first position to the pre-material fetching area 3000, the battery strings 10 placed on the first bearing surface are conveyed to the pre-material fetching area 3000, and when the second conveying device 402 moves from the second position to the pre-material fetching area 3000, the battery strings 10 placed on the second bearing surface are conveyed to the pre-material fetching area 3000.

The first conveyor 401 and the second conveyor 402 include a first movement state in which the first conveyor 401 and the second conveyor 402 alternately convey the battery string 10 to the pre-fetch area 3000, the alternation means that when the first conveyor 401 moves from the first position in the direction of the pre-fetch area 3000, the second conveyor 402 moves from the pre-fetch area 3000 in the direction of the second position, and when the second conveyor 402 moves from the second position in the direction of the pre-fetch area 3000, the first conveyor 401 moves from the pre-fetch area 3000 in the direction of the first position.

It can be understood that, since the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 alternately convey the battery strings 10 to the pre-fetching region 3000, on one hand, the battery strings 10 can be simultaneously connected with the two string welding machines and can be better matched with the string welding machines, on the other hand, when the battery strings 10 are half-chip battery strings 10, the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 can respectively convey the two half-chip battery strings 10, the two half-chip battery strings 10 can be respectively placed at positions corresponding to the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402, and when the pre-fetching manipulator fetches the corresponding half-chip battery string 10, the pre-fetching manipulator can directly fetch the half-chip battery string 10 without adjusting the position again, thereby further improving the efficiency of the pre-fetching unit 300 in transferring the battery strings 10.

Further, the first conveying device 401 further includes a fifth driving device 4012 for driving the first conveying device 401 to move from the first position to the pre-material fetching region 3000, and the second conveying device 402 further includes a sixth driving device 4022 for driving the second conveying device 402 to move from the second position to the pre-material fetching region 3000.

Further, the fifth driving device 4012 and the sixth driving device 4022 are screw nut devices, respectively, but other devices such as an air cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder, an electric cylinder, and an electromagnet are also possible.

Further, the first position and the second position are disposed on two sides of the pre-fetching region 3000.

Further, the distance between the first position and the pre-fetching area 3000 is equal to the distance between the second position and the pre-fetching area 3000.

Further, the moving speed of the first conveyor 401 is equal to the moving speed of the second conveyor 402, and the directions are opposite.

It is understood that the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 may further include a second motion state, where the first conveying device 401 or the second conveying device 402 conveys the battery string 10 to the pre-feeding area 3000, that is, the first conveying device 401 or the second conveying device 402 independently conveys the battery string 10 to the pre-feeding area 3000.

Further, the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 can selectively assume a first motion state or a second motion state to adapt to the laying of different battery strings.

In addition, it is understood that the first conveying device 401 or the second conveying device 402 can also convey a plurality of battery strings 10 in one conveying process, so as to further improve the efficiency. Such as stacking 3, 4, 5 or more battery strings 10 on the first carrier surface or stacking 3, 4, 5 or more battery strings 10 on the second carrier surface.

Further, the first conveying device 401 further includes a first conveying frame and a first conveying belt 4011 disposed on the first conveying frame, the first carrying surface is an upper surface of the first conveying belt 4011, the first conveying belt 4011 includes a first running direction, the first running direction is perpendicular to a connection line between the first position and the pre-fetching region 3000, it can be understood that, in this embodiment, the first running direction is a second direction, the connection line between the first position and the pre-fetching region 3000 is a first direction, similarly, the second conveying device 402 further includes a second conveying frame and a second conveying belt 4021 disposed on the second conveying frame, the second carrying surface is an upper surface of the second conveying belt 4021, the second conveying belt 4021 includes a second running direction, the second running direction is perpendicular to a connection line between the second position and the pre-fetching region 3000, the second running direction is the second direction, and a connecting line between the second position and the pre-fetching area 3000 is the first direction.

Further, the first conveyor is movable from a first position to the pre-feeding area 3000, and the second conveyor is movable from a second position to the pre-feeding area 3000, so that the battery strings 10 supported on the first conveyor belt 4011 are moved from the first position to the pre-feeding area 3000, and the battery strings 10 on the second conveyor belt 4021 are moved from the second position to the pre-feeding area 3000.

When the first conveyor belt 4011 is connected with the first stringer upstream, the battery string 10 passing through the first stringer moves to the first position in the second direction through the first conveyor belt 4011, and the first conveyor frame moves to the pre-material taking region 3000 from the first position in the first direction under the driving of the fifth driving device 4012, it can be understood that when the second conveyor belt 4021 is connected with the second stringer upstream, the battery string 10 passing through the second stringer moves to the second position in the second direction through the second conveyor belt 4021, and the second conveyor frame moves to the pre-material taking region 3000 from the second position in the first direction under the driving of the sixth driving device 4022, so that the connection and matching with the stringer are further facilitated.

Further, in order to enable the pre-feeding manipulator to better grip the battery string 10 in the pre-feeding area 3000, the pre-feeding level-shifting assembly further comprises a rotating assembly 304 for rotating the gripping device 103 so that the gripping device 103 is substantially aligned with the battery string 10 in the pre-feeding area 3000, and for substantially aligning the battery string 10 in the reforming area 2010, it can be understood that the rotating assembly 304 rotates the battery string 10 along a horizontal plane.

As can be appreciated, when the first conveyor 401 further includes the first conveyor belt 4011, the length direction of the first conveyor belt 4011 is parallel to the second direction, and the long side of the battery string 10 after being straightened is parallel to the first direction, so that it is preferable that the rotation angle of the rotating assembly 304 for rotating the battery string 10 is 90 °, that is, after the pre-fetching manipulator grabs the battery string 10 from the pre-fetching region 3000 and rotates 90 °, the long side of the battery string 10 is substantially parallel to the first direction, thereby facilitating the straightening.

Further, the conveying unit 400 further includes a substrate conveying device 403 for conveying the substrate 11, the substrate conveying device 403 includes a first substrate conveying assembly 4031, the first substrate conveying assembly 4031 includes a pair of first substrate 11 conveyer belts, the first substrate 11 conveyer belts include a third running direction, the third running direction is parallel to the first direction, when the substrate 11 is placed on the first substrate 11 conveyer belt, the first substrate conveying assembly 4031 conveys the substrate 11 in the first direction, a second substrate conveying assembly 4032 is disposed in a downstream direction of the first conveying assembly, wherein the second substrate conveying assembly 4032 includes a pair of second substrate 11 conveyer belts, the second substrate 11 conveyer belt includes a fourth running direction, the fourth running direction is parallel to the second direction, that is, the fourth running direction is perpendicular to the third running direction, it will be appreciated that the second substrate transport assembly 4032 transports the substrate 11 in a second direction in a downstream direction as the first substrate transport assembly 4031 transports the substrate 11 onto the second substrate transport assembly 4032.

Further, the second substrate transport assembly 4032 further includes a pair of support rollers 4033 for supporting the substrate 11.

Further, the second substrate 11 conveyer belt is movably arranged on the frame 12 and is also movably moved in the vertical direction to movably contact the substrate 11 or be separated from the contact with the substrate 11, when the substrate 11 moves to the position above the second substrate 11 conveyer belt in the first direction, the second substrate 11 conveyer belt is movably moved upwards and is in contact with the substrate 11, so that the substrate 11 is turned to move in the second direction, and the conveying of the substrate 11 is further facilitated.

s01: providing a battery string to be taken;

s02: placing a battery string to be taken out on a first conveying device 401, placing a battery string to be taken out on a second conveying device 402, wherein the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 are in a first motion state, and the first motion state is that the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 alternately convey the battery string to be taken out to a pre-taking area 3000;

s02: the pre-fetching manipulator grabs a battery string to be pre-fetched in the pre-fetching area 3000, and the typesetting manipulator grabs a battery string after being reformed in the reforming area 2010;

s03: the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the pre-fetching area 3000 to the reforming area 2010, the battery strings to be reformed are released in the reforming area 2010, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the reforming area 2010 to the laying area 1000, and the reformed battery strings are laid in the laying area 1000;

s04: the method comprises the following steps that a righting device rights a battery string 10 to be righted in a righting area 2010 to obtain the battery string 10 after being righted, a pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the righting area 2010 to a pre-fetching area 3000, and a typesetting manipulator is transferred from a laying area 1000 to the righting area 2010;

repeating S01-S04.

Because the pre-fetching manipulator and the typesetting manipulator complete position transfer while the correcting device corrects, namely the correcting, pre-fetching manipulator and the typesetting manipulator synchronously act, the typesetting manipulator does not need to wait for the correcting of the correcting device any more, and all the procedures can be synchronously carried out, thereby greatly saving the waiting time and greatly improving the laying efficiency.

In a preferred embodiment, the high-speed laying method of the battery string may be:

s11: providing a battery string to be taken;

s12: the method comprises the following steps that a righting device rights a battery string 10 to be righted in a righting area 2010 to obtain the battery string 10 after being righted, a pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the righting area 2010 to a pre-fetching area 3000, a typesetting manipulator is transferred from a laying area 1000 to the righting area 2010, and the battery string to be fetched is placed on a first conveying device 401;

s13: the pre-fetching manipulator grabs a battery string to be pre-fetched in the pre-fetching area 3000, and the typesetting manipulator grabs a battery string after being reformed in the reforming area 2010;

s14: the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the pre-fetching area 3000 to the restoring area 2010 and releases the battery string to be restored in the restoring area 2010, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the restoring area 2010 to the laying area 1000 and lays the restored battery string in the laying area 1000, the first conveying device 401 conveys the battery string to be fetched to the pre-fetching area 3000 from a first position, and the second conveying device 402 is transferred to a second position from the pre-fetching area 3000;

s15: the righting device is used for righting the battery string 10 to be righted in the righting area 2010 to obtain the battery string 10 after being righted, the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the righting area 2010 to the pre-fetching area 3000, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the laying area 1000 to the righting area 2010, and the battery string to be fetched is placed on the second conveying device 402;

s16: the pre-fetching manipulator grabs a battery string to be pre-fetched in the pre-fetching area 3000, and the typesetting manipulator grabs a battery string after being reformed in the reforming area 2010;

s17: the pre-fetching manipulator is transferred from the pre-fetching area 3000 to the restoring area 2010 and releases the battery string to be restored in the restoring area 2010, the typesetting manipulator is transferred from the restoring area 2010 to the laying area 1000 and lays the restored battery string in the laying area 1000, the second conveying device 401 conveys the battery string to be fetched from the second position to the pre-fetching area 3000, and the first conveying device 402 is transferred from the pre-fetching area 3000 to the first position;

repeating S12-S17.

The battery strings to be taken are conveyed to the pre-taking area, the battery strings to be taken are transferred to the correcting area, the corrected battery strings are transferred to the laying area to be laid synchronously, and meanwhile, the battery strings to be corrected in the correcting area are corrected by utilizing the return time of the pre-taking manipulator and the typesetting manipulator, so that the time sequence of all steps is further comprehensively utilized, the waiting time among the steps is reduced, and the laying speed and efficiency are further improved.

Further, the first conveying device 401 and the second conveying device 402 are selectively in a second motion state, and the second motion state is that the first conveying device or the second conveying device conveys the battery string to the pre-fetching area.

The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes performed by the present specification and drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a high-speed laying device of battery cluster, includes typesetting unit, the unit of reforming, pre-fetching unit and conveying unit, its characterized in that, typesetting unit including laying the district, the unit of reforming including the district of reforming, pre-fetching unit including pre-fetching the district, wherein:

the conveying unit is used for conveying the battery strings to the pre-fetching area and comprises a first conveying device and a second conveying device, the first conveying device and the second conveying device comprise a first movement state, the first movement state is that the first conveying device and the second conveying device alternately convey the battery strings to the pre-fetching area, the first conveying device comprises a first position, the second conveying device comprises a second position, the first conveying device can movably move from the first position to the pre-fetching area, the second conveying device can movably move from the second position to the pre-fetching area, the pre-fetching area is arranged between the first position and the second position, and the alternation means that when the first conveying device moves from the first position to the pre-fetching area, the second conveying device moves from the pre-fetching area to the second position, when the second conveying device moves from the second position to the direction of the pre-material-fetching area, the first conveying device moves from the pre-material-fetching area to the direction of the first position;

the first conveying device comprises a first conveying frame and a first conveying belt arranged on the first conveying frame, the first conveying belt comprises a first running direction, the first running direction is perpendicular to a connecting line between a first position and a pre-fetching area, the second conveying device comprises a second conveying frame and a second conveying belt arranged on the second conveying frame, the second conveying belt comprises a second running direction, and the second running direction is perpendicular to a connecting line between a second position and the pre-fetching area.

2. The high-speed battery string laying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first and second conveyors further include a second motion state, the second motion state being that the first conveyor or the second conveyor conveys the battery string to the pre-feeding area, and the first and second conveyors are selectively in the first motion state or the second motion state.

3. The high-speed battery string laying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the layout manipulator includes a layout displacement unit, and the degree of freedom of the layout displacement unit is 2 or less.

4. The high-speed battery string laying apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the typesetting displacement assembly comprises a first displacement assembly, the first displacement assembly comprises a first beam and a first support, the first support is movably arranged on the first beam, the first support is movably moved along the second direction, and the reforming area and the laying area are arranged on the moving path of the first support.

5. The high-speed battery string laying apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the pre-fetching manipulator comprises a pre-fetching material displacement assembly, the pre-fetching material displacement assembly comprises a third displacement assembly, the third displacement assembly comprises a second beam and a third support, the third support is movably arranged on the second beam, the third support is movably movable along the second direction, and the pre-fetching area and the restoring area are arranged on a movement path of the third support.

6. A battery string high-speed laying apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second beam is an extension of the first beam in the length direction, the first displacement assembly includes a first drive device, the first drive device is a first linear motor, the third displacement assembly includes a third drive device, the third drive device is a second linear motor, the first linear motor includes a first linear motor primary, the second linear motor includes a second linear motor primary, and the second linear motor primary is an extension of the first linear motor primary in the length direction.

7. The high-speed battery string deposition apparatus of claim 1, wherein the aligning apparatus includes an aligning frame and a supporting plate disposed on the aligning frame, the upper surface of the supporting plate forms an aligning region, the aligning apparatus further includes a first aligning member, the first aligning member includes a first aligning pushing plate, the first aligning pushing plate includes a pushing surface, and the pushing surface is parallel to the first direction.

8. A battery string high-speed laying method using the battery string high-speed laying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, comprising:

providing a battery string to be taken;

9. A method of laying up battery strings at high speed according to claim 8, comprising the steps of:

providing a battery string to be taken;